Published 19 hours ago
Obama addresses graduating Navy students
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Choosing future Navy and Marine leaders as his audience, President Barack Obama issued a pointed call today for an end to sexual assaults in the military, appealing to graduating midshipmen to display honor and moral courage to contain what has become a growing epidemic.

Published 19 hours ago
Amanda Bynes arrested on pot charge
NEW YORK — Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a criminal court where she was charged with reckless endangerment after police said she heaved a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

Published 19 hours ago
Nights of rioting test Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Residents of Stockholm braced for more violence Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that have rocked the Swedish capital and shaken the Scandinavian country’s self-image as a tolerant, liberal place.

Updated 22 hours ago
Some damage reported in Calif. quake
GREENVILLE, Calif. — A moderate earthquake centered in rural northeastern California and felt in two other states damaged some homes and ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water in the densely forested region, officials today.

Updated 22 hours ago
Girl dies in Mich. prom party shooting
SAGINAW, Mich. — A 17-year-old girl fatally shot at an event before a prom was a sophomore at Saginaw High School.

Published 23 hours ago
Woman pleads guilty in Perrysburg thefts
BOWLING GREEN -- A woman who authorities said stole money from school and community groups pleaded guilty today in Wood County Common Pleas Court.

Updated 23 hours ago
Man who killed relatives appears in U.S. court
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An American man killed his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic and then flew to the United States, where he was arrested at an airport, authorities said today.

5/24/2013 11:34 AM
Truck caused Wash. bridge collapse
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A truck hauling an oversized load struck an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.

5/24/2013 10:43 AM
UM students charged with having explosives
ANN ARBOR, Mich.  — Authorities say two Ann Arbor men had Molotov cocktails the night the University of Michigan basketball team lost in the NCAA championship game to Louisville.

5/24/2013 10:17 AM
2 men arrested on UK-bound flight
LONDON —Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.